Good grief, this gives me an idea how Pinoys can become a major military power! Let’s build a facility big enough to contain all the Pinoy crap we can gather, add some diesel fuel, a little methane, some faulty electrical wiring, and viola! Our own factory of weapon of mass destruction!!! We can mass produce enough crap and turn it into ICBMs, molotovs, and “crap bombs”. Great! Now maybe we can clobber Japan into submission, bwehehe….

does anybody know the guy or official who came up with the “gas tank explosion” theory first? yan kasi yung dominant theory na unang lumabas sa media eh, hindi terrorist attack, before it was temporarily set aside…

anyway, for those who haven’t been following the glorietta bombing case closely, here’s another reason to doubt the police “shit caused the explosion” theory.

We do not know who was the first to raise the possibility that a liquefied petroleum gas tank caused the explosion at the Glorietta 2 mall. Perhaps it was an eyewitness or perhaps it was a radio commentator speculating on air. But a few hours after the explosion, this theory was firmly set aside, and by responsible officers of the countryâ€™s armed services.

The blast was most likely caused by a â€œhard explosive,â€ Chief Insp. Reynold Rosero of the Philippine Bomb Data Center told reporters. (He also described the event as â€œmost likely a deliberate attack.â€) Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Avelino Razon echoed the line later in the day.

The day after the blast, Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon issued a categorical statement. â€œIt is a terrorist attack,â€ he said.

That same day, the PNP Crime Laboratory and the Bomb Data Center told the National Security Council meeting in Camp Crame that they had found traces of RDX, an ingredient used in such explosives as C4, which is used by the military.

But the following day, Sunday, the wind began to change direction. The police director for Metro Manila, Geary Barias, soft-pedaled the previous dayâ€™s assertion that RDX was found, saying its presence would have to be verified by â€œadditional testing.â€

This change came on the heels of the rather odd announcement, late on Saturday, that the blast originated from the basement of the mall.

â€œThe explosion came from the underground, thatâ€™s why there was a crater-like structure in the stairs going to the basement,â€ Rosero of the Bomb Data Center told reporters. Aside from the curious construction of that statement (did the police officer say a crater in the stairs?), there is also the inconvenient fact that Makati City Councilor Jun-Jun Binay had already told the media, on the day of the blast, that the explosion left an eight-meter-wide crater on the ground floor.

Even without that conflict in testimony, however, Roseroâ€™s unqualified assertion that the blast started in the basement was rather premature. Why? Because on the day he said that, the basement in question was still heavily flooded. (There were mentions of the flooding in the early stories.)

Where did the water come from? From two tanks in the area, one containing water for firefighting purposes, the other water for ordinary use. Thus, in the first few days after the blast, not a single person entered the basement, because the water was filthy and deep.

How can anyone say on Saturday, and categorically, that the blast emanated from the basement?